Technical Architect, Methods
Plus Discretionary Company Bonus
IT services consultancy
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IT services consultancy
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Plus Discretionary Company Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help safeguard public-facing services and apply digital thinking to make sure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience as a Technical Architect or Lead Engineer within large public-sector, government or regulated environments
- Strong background in Java and Spring Boot service design and delivery
- Experience designing REST APIs, microservices and integration patterns
- Good understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging and asynchronous processing
- Experience with cloud-hosted platforms, CI/CD, monitoring and operational support patterns
- Ability to define technical policy, governance frameworks and engineering best practice
- Good understanding of information architecture, data flows and lifecycle management
- Working knowledge of GDS Service Standard, public-sector delivery governance and secure design principles
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including presenting complex technical concepts clearly
- Experience working with multidisciplinary agile delivery teams
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or containerised service delivery
- Familiarity with HMCTS, MOJ, justice, policing or wider government platforms
Desirable
- Experience with Azure or AWS-hosted services
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases
- Experience with Kafka, Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies
- Understanding of security assurance, threat modelling, RBAC, audit logging and data protection controls
- Experience supporting services through alpha, beta, live and continuous improvement phases
What the job involves
- Technical Architect - Java / Spring Boot
- Methods is looking for an experienced Technical Architect with a strong Java and Spring Boot background to support customer-specific delivery workstreams and wider digital transformation projects
- The role requires hands-on architecture experience across modern service design, integration, cloud-hosted platforms and delivery governance
- The successful candidate will help shape robust, maintainable and scalable services, working closely with engineering teams, delivery leads, product stakeholders and enterprise architecture functions to ensure technical decisions align with programme outcomes, GDS expectations and wider organisational standards
- Define and communicate technical architecture for Java/Spring Boot services and supporting platform components
- Produce high-quality architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, roadmaps, integration patterns, sequence diagrams and data models
- Lead technical design governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, GDS Service Standard and delivery best practice
- Provide technical assurance across delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders
- Own and articulate technical requirements through governance and assurance processes
- Support architectural decision-making across discovery, alpha, beta and live service phases
- Translate business and operational needs into clear, deliverable technical designs
- Provide architecture direction for Java and Spring Boot applications, APIs, microservices and event-driven services
- Define reusable engineering patterns for service design, configuration, observability, error handling, resilience and maintainability
- Guide teams on Spring Boot best practice, including dependency management, REST API design, testing approaches and integration patterns
- Support decisions around modularity, service boundaries, domain modelling and data ownership
- Review designs and implementation approaches to ensure services are scalable, supportable and fit for live operation
- Oversee integration patterns with upstream and downstream systems, including APIs, messaging, event streams and batch interfaces
- Collaborate with developers, platform engineers, test engineers, data specialists and cyber teams to deliver robust solutions
- Support cloud-hosted delivery patterns, CI/CD, infrastructure integration and operational monitoring
- Ensure solutions are designed for resilience, performance, maintainability and operational support
- Develop, document and promote technical standards, reusable patterns and operational best practice
- Ensure alignment with relevant legislation, information governance requirements and internal technology standards
- Establish repeatable architecture controls and decision records
- Support training, coaching and enabling teams to adopt consistent engineering practice
- Provide expert guidance to delivery teams on architecture constraints, recommended patterns and implementation options
- Support troubleshooting, risk identification, technical assessments and proof-of-concept design activities
- Contribute to sprint ceremonies and delivery planning to ensure architecture is embedded across the lifecycle
- Work with delivery teams to balance pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The UK public sector has long understood the need for digital transformation, but antiquated systems and outdated processes can make even the most ambitious plans for adaptation fall short. Methods has existed for more than 30 years to assist government departments and agencies make the leap, helping them understand the possibilities of digital transformation and guiding them through strategic planning, data migration and implementation phases.
Methods is an acknowledged leader in IT consultancy within the public sector, praised for their human touch and focus on sustainability which it believes sets it apart from firms. Indeed it is trusted by huge swathes of the UK public sector including the NHS, the Office for National Statistics, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence, to name just a few.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in mid-2022. This acquisition will help to reinforce Method's position as a leading player in the public sector while also allowing it to broaden its role in the private sector. It is poised for growth and is investing heavily in talent to make this a reality.
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Company benefits
- Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
- Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
- Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
- A supportive and collaborative environment
- Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
- Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
- Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Pizza Thursday monthly, weekly social in the office and commitment to charitable causes
- Time off 25 days a year
- Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
- Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
- Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
- Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
- Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
- Benefits Platform offering various retail and leisure discounts
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Pat Crossley-Smith
(Executive Director)Previously worked in Agile Product at BUPA and Senior Manager in Development at British Airways.
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